Collar-supporter.



A. GELOW.

GOLLAR SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 16, 1914.

1,1 10,622, Patented Sept-15, 1914.

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'ALBE'ET GELOW, or THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR To THE WAR-BEN FEATHER- IBONE COMPANY, OF THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

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Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

Application filed February 16, 1914. Serial No. 818,878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT GELow, a citizen of the United States, residing at Three Oaks, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Collar- Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a collar supporter to be attached to lace or other forms of open or light fabrics used for collars, where it is desired that the collar supporter itself shall be concealed or invisible as far as possible.

A further object of the invention is to construct a collar supporter which will be economical to manufacture; that will permit of its form being changed within a reasonable degree and which gives support to the collar at substantially all points.

\Vith these main objects in view I have constructed a collar supporter shown in the accompanying drawing in which- Figure 1 shows an example of a collar to which my invention is adapted to be applied; Fig. '2 is a plan view of my improved collar supporter.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, the collar supporter is preferably constructed from a single piece of wire-like material 3 that is preferably pliable or inelastic, and which is bent into outlined crescent form, thereby forming an upper member and a lower member. These members forming the outline of a crescent are maintained in fixed relation by a plurality of struts formed integral with the wire-like material and the method of forming the collar supporter is as follows: The wire-like material has one end bent to form the strut 4:. The material is then bent on an are at substantially right angles to the strut 4 forming the truss section 5 and is then again bent at substantially a right angle forming the strut 6. A right angle turn is again made at the lower end of the strut 6 forming the truss 7 constituting part of the lower member and is then bent back upon itself to form the truss 8 constituting part of the upper member. The end of the truss 8 is joined to the end of the truss 5 by one or more convolutions of the material around the upper end of the strut 6 and the material is then carried down parallel to the strut 6 forming the strut 6 The material is then wound around the lower end of the strut 6 and car' ried toward the center of the supporter formmg the truss 9. At the center ofthe supporter the material is carried upwardly,

forming the strut 4t, whereupon one or more convolutions are formed. around the upper end of the strut at and the material is then carried so as to form the truss 10 similar to the truss 5. The material is then bent at substantially a"right'angle to thetr'uss' 10 forming the strut l1, whereupon it is again bent at substantially a right angle to the strut 11, forming the truss 12 constituting part of the lower member. The material is next bent upon itself forming the truss 13 as part of the upper member and then is turned about the upper end of the strut 11, paralleling the strut 11 forming the strut 11. Whereupon the material is again turned aboutthe lower end of the strut 11 and projects toward the center of the collar supporter forming the truss 14 constituting part of the lower member. The end of the strut 4 is then coiled about the lower end of the strut 41 and the end of the truss 14 is coiled about the lower ends of both the struts 4: and 45 It will be readily seen therefore, that the collar supporter can be economically formed in the manner above indicated and the truss construction shown enables an extremely light material to be used inasmuch as the upper and lower cords of the structure are amply supported by the struts interposed therebetween.

I have herein shown the wire as being crinkled, one of the crinkles being indicated at 15, the primary reason for which is to give a certain degree of expansion to the collar supporter, for if a slightly greater distance is desired between the struts, or expansion of the collar supporter for any reason is required, the crinkled material may be pulled into substantially straight form, thereby permitting the supporter to be made a little larger than when purchased, if desired. The struts being separable between their ends may be pulled away from each other thereby decreasing the margin between the upper and lower members and making the structure adaptable for collars of different widths.

In Fig. 1 the collar 16 represents the type of collar and one of the forms which may be given to such type of collar by employing my improved collar supporter.

Having now described my invention, I claim: I

1. A collar supporter comprisinga single section of wire-like material bent into outlined crescent form and centrally separable struts between the upper and lower members of the crescent outline to maintain said membersin spaced relation.

2. A collar supporter comprising a single section of pliable wire-like material bent into outlined crescent form and integral F struts between the upper and lower members of the crescent outline, said struts compri'sing centrally separable parallel strandsof wire-like material.

3. A collar supporter comprising a sln 'g gle section of pliable-wire-like material bent into outlined crescent form and integral struts between the upper and lower members of the crescent outline, said struts comprising centrally separable parallel strands of wire-like material and the ends of which are twisted together. r

. 4, A collar supporter comprising a sinbent' into outlined crescent form and centrally separable struts between. the upper and lower members of the'fc'rescent outline to maintain said members in spaced relation. 7 ALBERT GELOW.

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